Take Paternity Leave! It's Good for You, Your Kid, and the World

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Take Paternity Leave! It's Good for You, Your Kid, and the World

Diego Patiño

Silicon Valley firms are starting to offer more time off to new dads. Our message to those dads: Take it! “The joy a father gets from being engaged with his kids has a positive effect on his job,” says Brad Harrington, executive director of Boston College Center for Work & Family. Plus, for the moms who work alongside you, it normalizes this people-being-gone-from-work-for-kid-reasons thing. So go, get outta here, stay home. Do it for yourselves, do it for your families—and do it so other companies fall in line.